@Anna: You caught me at a good time. Ever since you announced you were leaving, I mostly sit around all day and draw pictures that look like this.
Also, as long as I have your attention, I am e-mailing you a techie privacy question that got ignored or lost a while back. I probably didn't send it to the right person.
Also, as long as I have your attention, I am e-mailing you a techie privacy question that got ignored or lost a while back. I probably didn't send it to the right person.
@VooDooDollhouse: Religion as an exercise it collective "snake handling"
I believe Karl Marx wrote that in his little-known "Der Jerghoff".
I believe Karl Marx wrote that in his little-known "Der Jerghoff".
@CrapCommentFromADude: My gripe was basically that the theme was "let's take a bunch of famous people you see every day in the paper or on TV and write them little thumbnail bios and little cartoon faces and heap them together in an 'article,' the end". No depth, just really unimaginative publishing.
Yawn. Needs more snake handling.
Somebody call Jimmy Carter.
@Superawesomerad: Eh, I dunno about that. I think his interviews are the best.
@beverlywriter: I think it's a mixed bag. Sometimes it's got some great stuff (esp. by Joshua Green), but yeah, you get some really inane stinkers, like the listicle headliner in November about "innovative thinkers" (Trey Parker and Matt Stone? Barack Obama? seriously?) and some embarrassingly hubristic endeavors such as Sullivan's "open letter" to Bush in October. Blarf.
The Bee/Jones marriage schtick is getting a little overplayed.
@SarahMC: Oh, by all means, let's have a bigger military. How else are we going to take advantage of Northrup Grumman's buy-one-get-one free Labor Day Sale?
Well, maybe men will just have to learn to specialize to survive. The era of the assembly line is over. Take a hint from the male Atlantic staff: they are all bloggers, but they all work hard to carve out their own niche. For instance...
Sullivan: Copy and paste a paragraph or two of every single thing you read on the internet.
Ambinder: surgically graft your lips to the anus of the Washington power structure, and work on those squirt gun skillz.
Fallows: Convince the magazine to let you goof around in China for a while.
Goldberg: Attempt to be funny. Do not succeed. Pick fights with your coworkers and get made fun of.
Coates: Write an insightful, grounded post at least once a day about society that NO ONE ELSE on the staff is remotely qualified to write, and then you'll be free to post funny stand-up clips and pontificate about the NFL as long as you want.
Sullivan: Copy and paste a paragraph or two of every single thing you read on the internet.
Ambinder: surgically graft your lips to the anus of the Washington power structure, and work on those squirt gun skillz.
Fallows: Convince the magazine to let you goof around in China for a while.
Goldberg: Attempt to be funny. Do not succeed. Pick fights with your coworkers and get made fun of.
Coates: Write an insightful, grounded post at least once a day about society that NO ONE ELSE on the staff is remotely qualified to write, and then you'll be free to post funny stand-up clips and pontificate about the NFL as long as you want.
@XavierLucage: If you're really really serious about not voting for the Democrats, I believe the only choice that will actually create a policy change in the Dem party line is to use electoral blackmail in the form of voting for Republicans. There needs to be documented evidence that progressives vote as a bloc for the GOP in the face of an unsuitably liberal candidate. Writing in "Ghandi" still only makes your vote half as valuable to the DCC as the John Edwards supporter who turned around and voted McCain instead of sucking it up and voting for that black fella with the funny-soundin' name, who don't wear no flag pin and who talked about lettin' the homos join the army.
@Nickly: How dare you. Don't you know Benjamin Franklin invented the Amtrak? Show some respect.
@Valkyrie607: 'Course, "interests" of constituents in somewhere like Arkansas is kind of up for debate.
[yglesias.thinkprogress.org]
Also, Halter had assloads of outside support. Not like he was total astroturf, but he had some serious Tru-Green treatment.
[yglesias.thinkprogress.org]
Also, Halter had assloads of outside support. Not like he was total astroturf, but he had some serious Tru-Green treatment.
@BabyJane: Your entrepreneurial spirit is what makes America exceptional.
Sounds like this kid just saw the world's worst dinner theater.
@SuperKarateMonkeyDeathCar: Unity 08? Loves me some Law & Order.
@SuperKarateMonkeyDeathCar: Ooh, secret stuff! Tell your superiors this from the White Mantis: the fish swims pensively, but the bird only gets hot stone massages at night.
@Sputnik_Sweetheart: That's right. I remember reading about it in the Economist a zillion years ago, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
THIS IS HOW I OPERATE MY LIFE.
THIS IS HOW I OPERATE MY LIFE.
@NefariousNewt: We'd better improve our voter fraud skills in the long term then.
@Norton: I just want majority rule and class warfare. Is that too much to ask?
